As soon as I received this book, my heart started to swoon! It is extremely stunning in every way a book can be and is 'eye candy' for those of us who love great photographic images of colourful, textured yarns. As well as a huge resource of information on Spinning and Dyeing that any spinner, beginner to more advanced, should have in their collection of reference material, it is full of stunning photographs of fibres and equipment.

Ashley Martinue, a self-taught spinner, from the USA, provides the reader with information on:

Types of Fibre - from wool to synthetics

Washing & Preparing Fibre

Dyeing Techniques, such hand painting to solar dyeing

Spinning Techniques with a section on Drop Spindles, Kick Spindles and spinning wheels,

including a very informative section on How to Make your own Wheel.

There is also a very in depth

section on developing a brand

for those of us who wish to start a business and also,

a comprehensive section on resources and useful information.

as well as sections on the following spinners:

Tina Watson,

Lexi Boeger,

Michelle Snowdon, and

Ruru Mori.

This beautiful book is available from

20th February 2014

in the UK

and is £25.00 for Hardback

and I feel it is well worth the money

published by Jacqui Small Publishing

tel: 020 7284 9300

ISBN 978-1-909342-46-0all the images are used here with the kind permission of the publisher